Bug 449859

I regularly plug into at least 4 different networks all with different DHCP servers every day. The dhcp client in current openSUSE factory (and 11.1 betaX) is very unreliable and often does not set the default route or name servers. (Its particularly bad with name servers! Often telling me I have modified resolv.conf when I have not)

It repeatably NEVER works with my head office network which has a windows 2003 DHCP server (Log below) although with the other networks which have various Linux based DHCP servers the results are fairly hit and miss.. I did not have these problems with 11.0 and earlier...


Nov 27 17:28:24 lenny kernel: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:a8:1d:f0:7c
Nov 27 17:28:24 lenny kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Nov 27 17:28:24 lenny kernel: wlan0: associate with AP 00:1c:a8:1d:f0:7c
Nov 27 17:28:24 lenny kernel: wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1c:a8:1d:f0:7c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=7)
Nov 27 17:28:24 lenny kernel: wlan0: associated
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: All rights reserved.
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: 
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-wlan0.conf line 28: no option named network-number in space dhcp
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: request subnet-mask, network-number,
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient:                      ^
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: /var/run/nm-dhclient-wlan0.conf line 33: ntp-servers: expected option name.
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: netbios-node-type, netbios-scope, ntp-servers;
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient:                                               ^
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:0a:e3:29
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:1d:e0:0a:e3:29
Nov 27 17:28:26 lenny dhclient: Sending on   Socket/fallback
Nov 27 17:28:29 lenny dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Nov 27 17:28:29 lenny dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.10
Nov 27 17:28:29 lenny dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.22
Nov 27 17:28:33 lenny kernel: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:a8:1d:ec:2c
Nov 27 17:28:33 lenny kernel: wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1c:a8:1d:ec:2c
Nov 27 17:28:33 lenny kernel: wlan0: authenticated
Nov 27 17:28:33 lenny kernel: wlan0: associate with AP 00:1c:a8:1d:ec:2c
Nov 27 17:28:33 lenny kernel: wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 00:1c:a8:1d:ec:2c (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
Nov 27 17:28:33 lenny kernel: wlan0: associated
Nov 27 17:28:34 lenny dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Nov 27 17:28:36 lenny dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Nov 27 17:28:36 lenny dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.10
Nov 27 17:28:36 lenny dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.41 -- renewal in 1399 seconds.
Nov 27 17:28:37 lenny dns-resolver: ATTENTION: You have modified /etc/resolv.conf. Leaving it untouched...
Nov 27 17:28:37 lenny dns-resolver: You can find my version in /etc/resolv.conf.netconfig